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The Linux Desktop Responsiveness Patches Are Feeling Good

08-05-2010, 08:30 PM

Phoronix: The Linux Desktop Responsiveness Patches Are Feeling Good

As was reported on Phoronix yesterday, the Linux desktop responsiveness problem may be fixed. This is the issue that has affected many Linux desktop users for numerous months where when dealing with large file transfers or other disk operations, the desktop interface (regardless of whether its GNOME, KDE, Xfce, etc) would become unresponsive and it could be a good number of seconds before a simple action like clicking a menu item would be processed...

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I thought this was FUD, but it was true? Linux could not handle things without lagging sometimes? And now, is the situation better or does it still occur?

Sometimes it happened and sometimes it didn't.
For example yesterday I put a 2.8 gb file on my local lighttp and downloaded it with aria2. This has to be the most I/O one would normally produce and my desktop was perfectely responsive...